Ask yourself......can I make it to the Show? The BIG Show? A World Cup level race? YES!! Two former CSU skiers made it there this week. Skiing for the Craftsbury Green team, Matt Briggs and Olie Burruss raced this weekend at Muonion, Finland. Muonion is located above the arctic circle in Lapland country where today the sun came up above the horizon at 11:30am! In Friday's sprint race, in which Andy Newall qualified second and finished 16th and Kikkan Randall won, Matt finished 67th and Olie finished 87th in the qualifying round. Not bad for a couple flatlanders from Massachusetts! They also raced in a classic race Saturday, won by Kris Freeman and a skate race on Sunday, where Freeman finished 2nd. Matt did not even start racing until high school at CC, but both he and Olie got totally fired up about skiing when they joined CSU. Matt went on to ski very well for Colby and Olie for Harvard and last March Olie was on the wax crew for the Mass EHS team.
So remember, two of your own have raced with some of the best on the World Cup! CSU goes world-wide!
Sprint Qualifying (105 in race)
| 67 | M | 133 | BRIGGS Matthew | 3530563 | USA | | 03:12,14 |
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87 | M | 139 | BURRUSS Oliver | 3530602 | USA | | 03:19,51 |
10 km classic (229 in race)
| 141 | BRIGGS Matthew | USA | 28:35,6 |
| 177 | BURRUSS Oliver | USA | 29:11,0 |
10 km skate (216 in race)
| 124 | BRIGGS Matthew | USA | 25:12,7 |
| 147 | BURRUSS Oliver | USA | 25:39,2 |
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